The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, has effected the deployment of special units to Rivers State, six DIGs, sixteen AIGs, and thirty CPs, in order to address security challenges during the April 11Governorship and state House of Assembly elections.

The deployments announced by Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, Force Spokesman in a statement issued in Abuja and obtained on Friday, gave details of the special units as 32 Units of Police Mobile Force (PMF), four Units of Counter terrorism Units (CTU) and four Units of Special Protection Units (SPU).

The others are: six Crack Teams of Detectives from Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) and complements of Intelligence officers.

The I-G also ordered the deployment of six Deputy Inspectors-General of Police to coordinate police activities in the six geo-political zones. The affected DIGs are, however, not named.